Weighing and price scale



(No Model.)

[Mil/A R. A. DANIELS. WEIGHING AND PRICE SGALE.

Patented Dec. 9, 1890.

; UNITED 'TATESYATENT omca ltIENZI A. DAl IIELS, OF MINNEAPOLIS,MINNESOTA.

-WE|GHING AND PRICE SCALE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 442,218, dated December 9, 1890.

' 7 Application tiled June 26, 1890. $erial No. 356,780. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: dinaryorpreferred construction, and the plat- Be it known that I, RIENZA A. DANIELS, of form and pan or scoop may have any desired Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin and ratio to each other. 55 State of Minnesota,have invented certain Im- In the scale that I have shown the platform provement's in \Veighing and Price Scales, of and pan or scoop are in proportion of ten to which the following is a' specification. one. The pedestal or support 4 is provided My invention relates to improvements in with a projecting arm and also with prothat class of scales in which is, indicated the jections 18 and 19, which support the beams, money value of the whole amountof material as hereinafter described. Mounted so as to ID soldat any desired price for a single pound turn freely in bearings S and 9 uponthe arm or other unit of any material placed upon the 10 is the shaft 7, that is connected by an arm scale, thus enabling persons using the scale to 6 with the rod 5, located within the pedestal sellmaterial by the costor pricein unitwithout 4, as described. A threaded arm 13 projects 6 any calculation as to the amount which should in the opposite direction from the shaft 7, and

3 be given forany specific sum of money-as, is provided With the adjustable weight 12, for example, if it is desired to sell iive dollars that may be adjusted on said rod for the purworth of material, the price per pound being pose of balancing said scale. Securedto the given, the scale will be used to determine the shaft 7, preferably .near the opposite ends amount of material to be given for this sum thereof, are the arms 23 and 24, which support 20 of money without the necessity of making the rectangular bar25, extending parallel with any computation as to the weight thereof, or the'shaft 7. There are two scale-beams 1i and t-hereverse of this result may be obtained. 15. The beam 14 is used to indicate the price The invention consists, generally, in the per pound and the beam 15 the value ofthe maconstruction and combination hereinafter deterial weighed at the price per pound indicated 25 scribed, and particularly pointed outin the upon the other beam. 'Thebeam l lissupportclaims. ed upon bearings 16 in the arms 18 on the In the accompanying drawings, forming a pedestal, and the beam 15 upon bearings 17 in part of this specification, Figure l is a perthe projections 19 onthe pedestal. Thebear- 8o spective View of a weighing and price scale ing 16 has a projecting arm 29, and the bear- 3 embodying my invention. Fig. '2 is a secing 17- a projecting arm 21, and these arms are t-ional elevation of the supporting-arm exconnected byasuitablelink 22. By this means tending from the upright portion of the scale, it will be noticed that as one scale-beam-moves in connection with the several bars and scaleup the 0 her moves in the opposite direction. arms, the outer ends of the same being re- The connection from the platform or scoop 35 moved. Fig.3isa detail sectional view showto the scale-beams is made by meansof the ing the connecting-rod between the platform movable sleeve or marker 35. arranged upon and-scoop-support .and the counterbalance the beam 14 andprovided with a loop 26, that weight by means of which the scale is adencircles the rectangular bar 25. It will be 93 justed. Fig. 4 is adetail end elevation of the seen that by changing the position of this 4 sleeve and yoke for setting the scale for any sleeve the connection between the platform desired price per pound. Fig. 5 is a side eleor scoop and the beams is at once changed, vation thereof, showing themeans for adj ustand i the relative proportions of the parts are ing the same, and the price per unit is repsuch that this sleeve may be set at any point 5 resented by an amount of money that includes upon the scale-beam 1t, and will then indicate 45 afraction of the money-unit. Fig. (3 is a dethe price per pound of the material to be tail. weighed by being opposite the number on the In the drawings, Z-represents the'platform; scale beam representing such price. The 4:, the scale-standard; 3,the'scoop or pan,and sleeve is made in two parts, the part35 being 5 the -rod by which the platform mechanism upon the beam and being provided with a set- 5o and/the scoop are connected. screw 35, by means of which it may -be se- The platform mechanism and the scoop o cured in any desired position. The other part pan and their connections may be of any orof the sleeve 3% is mounted upon the main portion of the sleeve and is adapted to slide:

thereon. This part of the sleeve is provided with the knife-edges 3t, and to these the loop 26 is connected. A screw 36 is swiveled upon the main part of the sleeve and engages a threaded openingin the other part. The head of this screw may be provided with a graduation or scale by means of which the movable portion of the sleeve may be accurately adjusted for any desired fraction of a cent or other unit. The sleeve 35 is provided with the depending projection 37, that rests upon the upper surface of the bar 25. The loop 26 and this projection 37 cause the bar 25 and the scale-beam 14 to move together, while permitting the independent adj ustment of the part of the sleeve carrying theloop 26. The upper scale-beam 15 is preferably formed in two parts and provided with the two sliding weights 31 and 32, these weights being in the proportion of ten to one. The upper portion of the beam is preferably graduated from zero to one 11 u ndred,each graduation representinga single unit, and the lower portion of the beam is graduated from zero to one thousand, each graduation, as shown, representing one hundred-one hundred more than the preceding graduation. In weighing material on the pan or scoop 3 the lower weight 31 is used; but the reading is upon the upper part of the beam. In weighing material upon the platform the upper weight is used for amounts less than one hundred and the lower weight for amounts above that, both readings being upon the part of the beam carrying the weight used. If, for example, it is desired to weigh one dollars worth of material, the material being worth, for example, ten cents per pound, the sleeve 35 on the lower beam is set opposite the 10 on that beam, and if the material is to be weighed upon the platform the upper weight is moved opposite the mark of 100 on the upper part of the scale-beam, or if the material is to be weighed upon the scoop the lower weight is moved opposite the mark of 100 on theupperpart of the scale-beam. The material is then placed upon the scale, platform, or scoop, as the case may be, until the lower scale-beam goes down and the upper one goes up, and the amount of material on the scale will then be the amount that should begiven at the price per pound indicated by the lower beam for the amount of money in dicated by the upper beam. If preferred, additional weight-supports 29 and 30 may be provided upon the beams and a weight-support 50 upon the sliding weight 31 upon the upper beam. The scale might equally well be used for indicating the amount of money that should be paid for a given amount of material at aspecified price per pound. The material in that instance would be placed upon the scale, platform, or scoop, and the sleeve on the lower beam be set to indicate the price per pound, and the weights on the upper beam would then be moved into such position upon the beam as to be balanced by the weight of the material,- and the amount indicated upon the upper beam would then be the value of the material upon the scale at the indicated price per pound.

I have described the price-scale device embodying my invention as applied to a balance device provided with both a platform and a scoop or pan connected by the rod 5. It is obvious, however, that my device might be used in connection with manyother forms of balance devices, with which the connections might be made through the medium of a bar similar to the bar 6, or it could be used in a scale provided with a platform or a scoop, either one alone.

I claim-- 1. The combination, in a device of the class described, of the platform and the scoop support or plate, the rod 5, connecting the same with the arm 6, pivoted thereto, the shaft 7, to which said arm 6 is fixed and with which it is adapted to move the adj ust-able weight 12 and threaded arm 13, the projecting and supporting arm or bracket 10, provided with the bearings 8 and 3, in which the shaft 7 is adapted to move, the arms 23 and 21, secured to said shaft 7 and adapted to move therewith in connection with the rod 25, the scale-arms l4: and 15, supported upon the bearing-rods 16 and 17 and connected, through the medium of the arms 21 and 29 thereon, with the link 22, the whole being supported by the projecting bearings 18 and 19, the link-connection 26 between the rod 25 and the scale-arm 14, as shown, the sliding weight 35, said sliding weight being provided with the adjustable portion 34 and the adj ustment-screw 36, and the sliding weights 31 and 32, all substantially as shown and described.

2. The combination of the connecting-rod 5 of the weighing-scale with a main shaft sup ported in suitable bearings upon an arm projecting laterally from the standard of said weighing-scale, said shaft being connected with the said connecting-rod 5 by a pivoted arm or link secured to said shaft, arms projecting from said shaft, a connecting-rod between the ends of said arms, graduated scalearms pivotally linked together and adapted to move in opposite directions upon suitable bearings, sliding weights upon said graduated scale-arms, the sliding weight upon one of said arms being movably linked with said rod extending between the said arms projecting from said main shaft, and means for aecurately adjusting the weighing-scale, substantially as described.

3. The combination of the main shaft sup ported in suitable bearings with a suitable balance mechanism attached to said shaft, the arms 23 and 24: upon said shaft, the bar 25, connecting said arms, the scale-beams 14 and 15, linked together, as shown, by the arms 21 and 29 and the link 22, the sliding weights 31,

32, and 35 upon said scale-beams, the link 20' IIO 0 with the balance mechanism of the scale, and

an adjustable sliding block and link connectin g said bar with one of said beams, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 19th day of June, 1890.

RIENZI A. DANIEIB.

In presence of A. 0. PAUL, C. G. I'IAWLEY. 

